On Coal at Home and Abroad: With Relation to Consumption, Cost, Demand, and Supply and Other Inquiries of Present Interest; Being Three Articles Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, with an Appendix |
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| Title | On Coal at Home and Abroad: With Relation to Consumption, Cost, Demand, and Supply and Other Inquiries of Present Interest; Being Three Articles Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, with an Appendix |
| Author | John R. Leifchild |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1873 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 1 May 2006 |
| Length | 141 pages |
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